QUERCUS ALBA 



all battles both of men and of trees, 

 there is an end ; the end of the 

 battle came. A vigorous, healthy 

 standard now, with a trunk eighteen 

 inches in diameter and rising forty 

 feet, clear and white, from forest bed 

 to crown, Quercus Alba, conqueror, 

 towered dominant, invincible, above 

 the tops of his two overpowered an- 

 tagonists; towered level with or a bit 

 above every other tall conqueror on 

 the plateau and the long, long 

 battle for the sweet reward of life, 



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